Improvement in curtain-fixtures



F. HOBART.

Improvement in Curtain Fixtures.

m W w UNITED STATES FRANKLI HOBART, OF MOUNT PLEASANT, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CURTAIN-FIXTURES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 119,983, dated October 17, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN HOEART, of' Mount Pleasant, in the county of Henry and State of Iowa, have invented certain Improvements in the Method of Hanging Window-Ourtains, Maps, and the like, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of my invention consists in a peculiar arrangement of cords and ring-bolts for raising and lowering a curtain or map from the top and rolling it up on a roller at its lower end 5 and also in combining with the cordswhich are used for rolling the curtain and pass through a ring-bolt in the upper curtain-stick, a sliding clamp or button, by means of which the curtain can be held suspended at any point without the use of weighted tassels.

Figure l is a front elevation of a window and curtain embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section.

The same letters of reference are used in both gures in the designation of identical parts.

The curtain A is fastened at one end to the roll B and at the other end to the stick O, and,

hung before a window, with the roller down, by the cords a a, which are respectively fastened to the stick C near its ends. These cords, after passing through ring-bolts cl'al, are carried toward the center of the window-frame through the ring-bolts a2 a?, and finally rove together throughthe rin g-bolt c3, and united in a weighted tassel, b, which is made sufficiently heavy to counterbalance, together with the friction ou the cords, the weight of the stick C and curtain A. The roller B is sustained and operated by the cords cc, which are, with their ends, secured to the stick C, and after passing around the curtain and roller, are carried respectively through the ring-bolts c1 a1,ringbolts c1 c1 on the stick G, ring-bolt c2 in the center of the window-frame, and finally through the rin g-bolt c3 screwed into the center of the stick C, and they are then united in a tassel, d, which is weighted to counterbalance the curtain and roller. Between the ring-bolt c3 and the tassel or ends of' the cords a button or clamp, c, for which a rubber ball is used by preference, is placed thereon in such a manner that, while it can be readily slid up or down on the cords, it will yet firmly bind thereon at any point. This ball is larger than the eye of the ring-bolt by coming in contact with which it will prevent the further unrolling of the curtain as well as its dropping bodily.

The curtain can be rolled up or unrolled by operating the cords c c, no matter in what position the stick (l may be, and it is raised or lowered bodily by manipulating the cords a a; but may also be raised bodily by pulling down the cords c c after it has been entirely rolled up by them. The length of the cords c c is such that their tassel l will bring up against the ring-bolt c3 whenever the curtain-roller is dropped to its lowest position, no matter where the stick C may be located for the time being, so that at such times there is. no need of the rubber ball or clamp 5 but the latter comes into play when the curtain is partially rolled up and it is desired to station it permanently without depending upon the weighted tassels to hold it there. At such times the ball or clamp is slid up against the eye or ring-bolt c2, in consequence of which the curtain is prevented from dropping or unrolling even should the tassels be lifted, in like manner may the curtain be held permanently suspended at any point before the window when entirely rolled up. The arrangement ofthe cords as heretofore eXplainedleaves the endshangin g down in the center of thewindow in close proximity to one another, causing the tassels to serve as ornaments. The main object in this arrangement being to bring the cords to the center of the window, it will be observed that the curtain can be operated after the manner proposed by the use of the ringbolts al al and a single central ring-bolt, c2, in the window-frame only, dispensing with those marked a2 a2 c3 and c1 c1, the ring-bolt c3 in the curtain-stick being, however, used in every instance without departing from thc principle of my invention. In the same manner may the tassels b and d" be left off, and the cords, being made sufliciently long, fastened 4to a button on the window-frame every time the curtain has been arranged to suit, but the omission of either or all of these devices will cause the curtain to operate in a less perfect manner. An incidental advantage obtained by passing the cords c c through the ring-bolt c3 in the curtain-stick O consists in the fact that the curtain is steadied an d prevented from swaying to either side, which advantage is, though incidental, quite important.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is*- l. The herein-described arrangement of the clamp e, substantially as and for the purpose set cords o a and Vc c for hanging' a Window-curtain forth. or map and operating it from the center, when In testimony whereof I have signed my name the cords c c are passed through a ring-bolt, 03, to this speooation in the presence of tWo subin the center of the stick C, substantially as and soribing Witnesses.

for the purposes set forth. Witnesses: FRANKLIN HOBART.

2. In combination with the ring-bolt c3 in the W. K. HOBART, curtain-stick C and the cords c c, the adjustable JOSEPH HOBART. (62) 

